The Grimes sisters

Description

Sarah and Emily Grimes are two very different sisters, but they share a sentimental upbringing. Richard Yates describes Emily's love misadventures with a surgeon's precision, single woman, intellectual and cosmopolitan, that passes from one man to another without ever finding fullness. And also Sarah's unhappiness, the great german, prettier but also more conventional, that when he gets married he condemns himself to a life full of ingratitude. Yates also masterfully explores the relationships between mothers and daughters. Sarah and Emily never quite break free of Pookie, his mother, a pathetic and addicted woman, a burden that will mark them forever. The Grimes sisters is a very interesting catalog of sentimental failures, a real revelation for all those who want to understand heartbreak between men and women. As Julian Barnes observed, "if Cheever was able to capture the poetry and surrealism of the American suburbs, Yates extracted all the despair from it».